Verna Carson-Sawyer is a major antagonist in Leatherface and a minor character in Chainsaw Massacre 3D.
Biography[]
Verna grew up in the the Sawyer Clan, a family of cannibalistic serial killers and eventually became it‘s matriarch. She has several nephews and at least one daughter Loretta Sawyer (it is possible that her children were the result of incest in the Sawyer family). In the absence of her sister Anne Sawyer, her nephews see her as a surrogate mother and call her Mama, unlike the rest of her family she is not a consistent cannibal.
In 1955, her son/nephew Jedidiah Sawyer was taken away from the family by Texas Ranger Hal Hartman, after Drayton Sawyer killed his daughter Betty. Jedidiah was placed in a mental institution and Verna spent the next ten years trying to get him out. During that time, she married Benjamin Carson, a wealthy man and used some of her new fortune in her attempts to get Jed released.
After another failed attempt to get Jed back legally, she attempted to get him out by forcing her way in and taking him. She was stopped by guards and thrown out of the hospital but not before starting a riot that would inadvertently lead to her son escaping with several other Asylum patients. Hearing later about the escape, she bribed a Sheriff Deputy to report any news on the investigation. When the Deputy reported Jed’s location, she had Drayton and Nubbins stab him and feed him to the pigs before going after Jed.
Once Verna had found Jed and taken him back to the Sawyer farm, she attempted to fix his face by keeping it together with a harness after it had been shot through by Hal Hartman, who they had taken captive along with a Nurse the inmates had taken hostage during the escape, Lizzy White. She rejoiced with the other Sawyers when Jed finally joined the family way and killed Hartman with a Chainsaw before decapitating Lizzy when she tried to escape and insulted Verna.
After her family was killed including her nephews and beloved daughter, she started tracking down information the people involved with massacre which she found her daughter's infant daughter, being raised by Gavin and Arlene Miller.
Death[]
Verna's Corpse
She keeps tabs on her granddaughter until she was older. When Verna became sick, she started writing Heather a letter explaining her bloodline and her inheritance which includes the mansion and her cousin Leatherface and died from old age. She was buried next to her daughter.
Trivia[]
- In Texas 3D, she is played by Marilyn Burns, who was Sally Hardesty in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a patient (who is supposed to be Sally Hardesty) in The Next Generation.